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Terms. mercantilism. Controlling foreign trade makes your country stronger so you do stuff like: Make colonies Tell the colonies they can’t trade with anyone else Put tariffs on stuff from other countries. Levying taxes. Charging taxes. Franchise/suffrage. Right to vote…

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  1. Terms

  2. mercantilism Controlling foreign trade makes your country stronger so you do stuff like: • Make colonies • Tell the colonies they can’t trade with anyone else • Put tariffs on stuff from other countries

  3. Levying taxes Charging taxes

  4. Franchise/suffrage Right to vote… first to land-owning men then to African American men then to women in some states then to women in all states (19th Amendment) then to 18-yr-olds (after Vietnam) “disenfranchising” is taking away the vote(literacy clause, grandfather clause, poll taxes)

  5. Salutary Neglect Britain ignores the colonies till they need money

  6. boycott Refusing to use, buy, or deal with something

  7. Loyalist Americans who wanted to stay loyal to the king (did not support war for independence)

  8. sovereignty Right to rule Popular sovereignty—rule is based on what is popular (how everyone votes)

  9. ratification Approving something When the states voted for the Articles of Confederation, they ratified the document.

  10. Ceding v. Annexing Ceding is giving something up. Annexing is taking something. Ex: Mexican cession (California) Annexation of Hawaii

  11. Confederation Government Our first form of government under the Articles of Confederation. problems w/ it: No power to tax Unanimous consent Inability to handle conflict (Shays Rebellion)

  12. Proportional representation If you’re bigger, you get more say.

  13. federalism When you have Washington DC government plus state & local governments.

  14. republicanism / representative government When you vote for people who do the voting for you.

  15. assumption When you assume someone else’s debt. After the Revolutionary War, SC paid off all its debt, but then was ticked off when it had to assume some of the Northern states’ debt.

  16. revenue

  17. sedition Talk that could cause problems for your country laws about sedition pop up during wars

  18. nullify Cancel The South thought it should be able to nullify any laws it didn’t like because of states’ rights. (nullification—John C. Calhoun)

  19. embargo Cancelling trade…but it sometimes bites ya in the butt

  20. Judicial review when judges(the court) review a law to decide if it is Constitutional or not This case was during the Marshall court… when the Supreme Court gained a lot of power.

  21. encroachment gettin’ in someone’s space We liked encroaching on Native American land.

  22. Abomination Really bad John C. Calhoun hated the Tariff of 1828 and called it the Tariff of Abominations.

  23. textiles Fabric or woven stuff Goes along with cotton industry Textile mills in South along rivers and big textile industry in England

  24. assimilate blend in what we wanted Native Americans & immigrants to do

  25. antebellum Before the Civil War a lot of reform movements at this time because of revivalism & the 2nd Great Awakening

  26. fugitive runaway The Fugitive Slave Act said that Northerners had to send back runaway slaves.

  27. King Cotton Cotton is so important to the South that it is like cotton is the king and rules every decision.

  28. war of attrition You’ve got more…so you just have to wear down the other guy…like the North in the Civil War.

  29. null and void nada…zip…zero…ain’t got nothin’ to it The Union said Southern secession was null and void…that they didn’t have the right to leave the union so their claim of doing so was worthless.

  30. radical extreme The Radical Republicans were extreme during Reconstruction when they divided the South into military districts and sent in troops.

  31. philanthropist Someone who likes to give a lotta love Some of the big-name Robber Barons of the Gilded Age were philanthropic.

  32. subsidies Ways the government tries to help businesses do something…like land grants for the Transcontinental Railroad.

  33. bison Buffalo Lots were killed because of the Transcontinental Railroad, and that hurt Native Americans’ lifestyle.

  34. kickbacks you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours one of the tactics Rockefeller used to gain control of the oil industry

  35. Anglo Saxon White people …may be used in talking about Social Darwinism

  36. anarchist someone who wants to overthrow government goes long with Red Scare Some people freaked out that unions and organized labor would lead to anarchism.

  37. nativism America for Americans

  38. reform Change…for the better Big during antebellum period (temperance, abolition) Big with the Progressives (TR, Taft, WWi) (ex: muckrakers—The Jungle)

  39. bully pulpit Teddy Roosevelt using the power of the presidency to get things done

  40. contiguous Think continuous…connected (not Alaska or Hawaii)

  41. resurgence Another surge. Used to talk about the KKK getting wound up again in the 20s about the southern & eastern European immigrants; they hated the Catholics.

  42. speculation Like gambling. Buying stocks hoping they’ll increase in value quickly so you can get rich quick. One of the causes of the Great Depression. Regulations begun under FDR’s New Deal: SEC.

  43. stagflation The economy gets stagnant…“stuck” during Nixon’s presidency

  44. deficit When you’re “in the hole” on money

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